CPD in critical times

1. Looking after your own interests

Tired of being alone?

Irritated having to defend your subject?

Does no-one understand your job?

Should be Continuing Professional Development

Not Constraints, Pressure and Demands!

As a teacher, you have got to keep learning until you retire or die!!

CPD should not be the occasional extra

So a solution might be a PLN.

Weve had SLNs

Where has this idea come from?

Simple Google search will give you lots of links!

Its an easier way to think about how you are or can be connected.

Involvement with new technologies

Need to develop new skills

Stay up to date - not be an oldie

Stay connected as a learner and teacher

Learn more myself for fun!

Join TES resources to download materials

Be part of the MFLResources Yahoo group

Join Linguanet forum through CILT

Read the ALL sites and ALL London in particular

Slideshare.net share your PowerPoints and look for other peoples

Vimeo.net for video

Prezi.com great way to gather ideas

Delicious.com get good at Tags and share your bookmarks

Be part of a Flashmeeting

http://lmhtob.wikispaces.com/MFL+Flashmeeting

25 people can sign up, test mike and webcam to participate in online discussion.

Discuss from your own armchair!

Show n tell get-togethers

Teachmeets Hampshire, NW, NE

Special conference sessions for MFL teachers with 2 min presentation slots

Language World, ALL conf, SW conf

ICT Links conf.12 & 13 Feb in Soton

Phil Beadle Guardian EducationFollowing the conversation of intelligent people is like a shot of mental expresso

http://www.teachersfirst.com/spectopics/twitterforteachers.cfm

Get someone to introduce you

Warning its VERY public

Its fabulous for instant rapport

Develop an online presence sensibly

Give, share, be kind!

Enjoy daft things that make you laugh!

You can search for people you know

See who they are following and click to follow them too

Search lists for teachers with different interests SEN, Maths, Management

Get wind of the latest news before it hits the papers!

Its instant

When you have also met some of the people, it gains hugely in meaning

Ask experts and get replies Edmodo man answers me personally

Join in specific web chats attach a # e.g. #EDL #FM9 #somersetmfl

How can you follow lots of sites easily?

Get new posts delivered to you you dont need to go to each site!

You can keep up with large numbers of contributions and keep them for reading later or star or share

Google Reader is free and easy to use

Open an account

Go to top heading Google Reader

Find a site with RSS feed and click on it ask to subscribe using Google Reader (or others!)

What I have learned is changing my teaching

I am more connected

I have benefitted from many new opportunities

I have more confidence

Go towww.froggyval.comfor links

Follow @froggyval on Twitter

Sign up for Google Reader

Read the blogs of best practitioners

How to use new technologies

Web 2 tools Glogster, Xtranormal, Wordle, Edmodo, Storybird, Wallwisher

Blogging for me and pupils

Connections to large group of teachers

I share what I am learning or what we are doing

School blogging

Primary Wiki wetpaint.com

Trip posterous

MYLO ambassador

You dontalways get the best CPD from expensive courses

You need to stay up to date

Read and take in new ideas

Give your pupils a world audience

Start your own PLN!

www.edmodo.com

www.vimeo.com

www.wallwisher.com

Free blog by email www.posterous.com

www.prezi.com

www.slideshare.net

www.delicious.combookmarking

www.flickr.comfor pictures

www.radiolingua.comfor FL podcasts

www.teachertrainingvideos.com

http://mfl-storybirds.wikispaces.com /

http:// lisibo.co.uk /

http:// lmhtob.wikispaces.com/MFL+Flashmeeting

Blogs I follow

http:// alexblagona.blogspot.com /

http:// www.boxoftricks.net /

http://chilternedgemfl.typepad.com/chiltern-edge-mfl /

http://domsmflpage.blogspot.com/

http:// frenchteachernet.blogspot.com /

http:// joedale.typepad.com/integrating_ict_into_the _/

http:// amandasalt.blogspot.com /

http:// chrisharte.typepad.com/learner_evolution_chris_h /

http:// mmeperkins.typepad.com/my_weblog /

http://isabellejones.blogspot.com

http:// languagesresources.wordpress.com /